# embrown
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *h₁én
From em- (variant of en- (prefix with the sense ‘to bring to a certain condition or state’)) +‎ brown (“having a brown colour”, adjective).
* French embrunir
* Italian imbrunire

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈbɹaʊn/, /ɛm-/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /əmˈbɹaʊn/, /ɛm-/
* Rhymes: -aʊn
* Hyphenation: em‧brown

### Verb

embrown (third-person singular simple present embrowns, present participle embrowning, simple past and past participle embrowned) (chiefly literary and poetic, also figuratively)
* (transitive)
** To make (something) brown; to brown.
    Synonym: brownify
*** a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; / Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he takes away.
*** 1799, George Davies Harley, “The Reproof”, in Ballad Stories, Sonnets, &c, volume I, Bath, Somerset: […] R. Cruttwell; and sold by C[harles] Dilly, […], and W[illiam] Miller, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 22:For blight of the season embrowneth the bloom, / And time winnows falshood, like chaff, as it flies: […]
*** 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 17:The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd, […]
*** 1825, “Chapter XXXIX. Intitled, The Troops; Revealed at Mecca.”, in George Sale, transl., The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; […], new edition, volume II, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Thomas Tegg, […], footnote ‡, page 327:The heat embrowneth the harvests. They fall under the edge of the sickle.An English translation of a passage from Claude-Étienne Savary’s French translation of the Quran (1782–1783).
*** 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume III (The Talisman), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 31:His features were small, well formed, and delicate, though deeply embrowned by the eastern sun, and terminated by a flowing and curled black beard, which seemed trimmed with peculiar care.
*** 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
*** 1863 November – 1864 February, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Cousin Phillis. Part II.”, in Cousin Phillis. And Other Tales. […], illustrated edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 66:He was looking quite a different man to what I had left him; embrowned, sparkles in his eyes, so languid before.
** To make (something) dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); to brown, to darken.
*** 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 242–246:[…] Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / Both where the morning Sun firſt warmly ſmote / The open field, and where the unpierc't ſhade / Imbround the noontide Bowrs: […]
*** 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 11:And thy dark Pencil, Midnight! darker ſtill / In Melancholy dipt, embrovvns the vvhole.
*** 1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza IX, page 115:No deeper clouds the grove embrowned, / No nether thunders shook the ground; […]
* (intransitive)
** To become or make brown; to brown.
    Synonym: brownify
*** 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 238, lines 91–94:[O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before Ulyſſes lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […]
*** 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume II (Purgatorio), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 21, lines 19–21:A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape imbrowns, […]
** To become or make dark or dusky; to brown, to darken.
*** 1738, William Warburton, “Section IV”, in The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume I, London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC, book III, page 405:Under theſe Auſpices, Jamblicus compoſed the Book juſt before mentioned, Of the Mytſeries; meaning the profound and recondite Doctrines of the Egyptian Philoſophy: VVhich, at Bottom, is nothing elſe but the genuine Greek Philoſophy, imbrovvned vvith the Fanaticiſm of Eatſern Cant.
*** 1814, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. […], volume I (Hell), London: […] [J. Barfield] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 1–3:Now was the day departing, and the air, / Imbrown'd with shadows, from their toils releas'd / All animals on earth; […]

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) embrown | (to) embrown |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | embrown | embrowned |
| 2nd-person singular | embrown, embrownest$^†$ | embrowned, embrownedst$^†$ |
| 3rd-person singular | embrowns, embrowneth$^†$ | embrowned |
| plural | embrown | embrowned |
| subjunctive | embrown | embrowned |
| imperative | embrown | — |
| participles | embrowning | embrowned |
$^†$Archaic or obsolete.

#### Alternative forms

* imbrown (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* embrowned (adjective)
* embrowning (adjective, noun)
* embrownment (rare)

#### Related terms

* brown
* brownify
* browning (noun)
* brownish

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “embrown, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022.

### Anagrams

* Mewborn, browmen